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Bartlow, CAMBRIDGE, CB21 4EN

The circular building is a former water tower. At the end of the lane is a children's nursery.

The midmost and tallest of the tumuli (Romano-British burial mounds) hidden away within woodland on the Bartlow estate. Three of these mounds survive out of the original seven, giving the village its name ("mound among birches").

The northernmost of the three tumuli viewed from the summit of the middle mound.

This group of Romano-British Tumuli are hidden in a wood on the Cambridge - Essex border and are only revealed to sight at the last minute, a truly remarkable monument.

Essex County Council put their border signs well inside the county.

The largest Tumuli in the UK, they contain wooden and brick chambers filled with grave goods, some destroyed in a fire sadly. One mound was wiped out by the long gone railway. Three are well preserved.

Looking down on the mound to the south of the main mound.

Four Romano-British tumuli survive fairly intact here, of an original seven*. Three are publicly accessible, this is one of the smaller ones, viewed from the top of by far the biggest one. The four survivors are in line roughly south to north. This is the southernmost. The other three tumuli were in a parallel row just to the west, the flattened remains of two are discernible in the public area. Needless to say, they are Ancient Monuments. * There is a contradiction on the original number, it could be eight, which number I am inclined to favour. On the descriptive board at the site, an engraving from a 1769 publication rather clearly shows five in the main row, although the site plan on the board only shows four. The fifth, at the northern end, now shows no trace. It could have gone with the landscaping of Bartlow Park, which made a bit of a mess of the only survivor north of the railway.

There were originally thought to be seven mounds on this site. They are Romano - British burial sites. The largest mound to the left is 13 metres high and 43 metres diameter.